Fed’s Preferred Inflation Gauge Falls as Price-Growth Fight Gets Back on Track
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Fed’s interest-rate hike hasn’t meant increased layoffs yet
The number of layoffs in the U.S. was supposed to shoot higher as the Federal Reserve jacked up interest rates to tame inflation and pushed the economy toward recession.It hasn’t happened.Instead, the number of layoffs, as reflected…
Mortgage Rates Rise After Fed’s Updated Rate Forecast
The Fed did not hike its policy rate today, but it did release updated forecasts that showed the average Fed member expects rates to be half a percent higher at the end of 2024 and 2025 compared to their forecasts released…
Fed’s Powell proceeding ‘carefully’ on monetary policy, inflation
The Federal Reserve is putting a pause on interest rates in September, potentially leaving room for one last hike in 2023. Yahoo Finance Fed Reporter Jennifer Schonberger breaks down Fed Chair Jerome Powell's statements on data…
Fed’s Cumulative Operating Losses Exceed $100 Billion. Rate of Weekly Losses Begins to Slow as QT…
Not that the losses matter to the Fed, but they matter to the Budget Deficit.
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Since September 2022, the Fed has consistently booked operating losses, as the interest it pays banks on their…
World Adapts to Fed’s Rate Order in 36-Hour Sequence
(Bloomberg) -- A 36-hour rush of global monetary decisions may set the tone for the rest of the year as the world adjusts to a US push to keep interest rates high.Most Read from BloombergStarting with the Federal Reserve on Wednesday and…
EUR/USD’s Fate in Fed’s Hands, EUR/JPY Carves Out Falling Wedge
EUR/USD AND EUR/JPY FORECASTEUR/USD will exhibit heightened sensitivity to the FOMC monetary policy announcement next weekThe Fed is expected to hold interest rates steady, but may signal one more hike for this year, creating a…
Fed’s Bowman Signals More Rate Hikes Likely Will Be Needed
(Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman said the US central bank may need to raise rates further in order to fully restore price stability.Most Read from Bloomberg“Additional rate increases will likely be needed to get…
How the Fed’s rate hikes may cause financial crisis in low-income countries
Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell. Nathan Howard/Bloomberg via Getty Images
The campaign to fight U.S. inflation by upping interest rates has been going on for a year and a half – and its impacts are…
Feds trawl crypto markets to hook fentanyl kingpins
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WASHINGTON -- The Biden administration has intensified its focus on tracing cryptocurrency payments that some of the most dangerous…